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Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted
I made it a practice to keep the brightness down to a low level to help extend the life of the picture tube. (don't know if it made any difference on the extended life but it seemed to make sense to me as a young kid of 17 when we got our first color set)
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I have also done this since I got my first color TV in 1979. My method was always to start with the contrast at minimum (and brightness set for proper black level), then increase the contrast to the least amount I thought I could live with. Usually this was less than halfway up.